Re: problem with setxattr

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:14:14AM -0800, ankur mattoo wrote:
> hi
> okay im trying to use setxattr and my simple prog is
> giving an invalid argument error on stracing!!
> 
> main()
> {
> char *buff;
> size_t
> t=getxattr("ankur1","system.posix_acl_access",buff,0);
> buff=(char  *)malloc(t);
> getxattr("ankur1","system.posix_acl_access",buff,0);

Last parameter on the line above needs to be 't', not 0.

> if(setxattr("ankur1","system.posix_acl_access",buff,t,0));
> perror("Error");
> }
> 

cheers.

-- 
Nathan